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Pickering, Son & Norton,s Patent Oldham "ACME."

4/18/2016

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As mentioned in the previous blog post Smith and Turner were not the first to manufacture a door spring with the word ACME associated with it.

In The Journal of Domestic Appliances and Sewing Machine Gazette of 1887 you will find an advert from John Tester of London, advertising as the agent for the new patent Pickering, Son & Norton's ACME Door Check and Spring.


https://archive.org/stream/journaldomes151887lond#page/n15/mode/2up/search/pickering+and+norton+acme
In the National Archives you can also find reference to a letter from Samuel Pickering to James and Francis Hindle re. a request for a patent of goods (Acme Door Check and Spring) dated 1887.

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/08e63fb9-441c-47b5-a987-6e51f5fc6d93
Unfortunately I have only the main brass cover plate to show you (I presume the ACME had a second cover for the pin area), bought from Ebay a while ago.

This is so far the only floor spring I have come across that has this split brass cover arrangement.
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If anyone has any further information they would like to share about Pickering and Norton's ACME I would be very interested to hear from them.
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Lloydd Sandever
7/11/2020 09:06:05 am

I have just come across a, JE Notton, improved patent, Oldham, acme brass cover,(plaque)

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